The name Baddour is from the ancient Anglo-Saxon tribes of Britain. The name was given to a person who was a coppersmith or a dealer in baterie. The surname Baddour is possibly derived from the Old French word bateor, meaning one who beats, a term which has been applied to a beater of cloth or fuller. The surname may also be a short form of the word orbatour, which means a beater of gold.

Baddour Early Origins

The surname Baddour was first found in Berkshire, where they held a family seat from ancient times.

Baddour Spelling Variations

Baddour Spelling Variations

Sound was what guided spelling in the essentially pre-literate Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Also, before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Therefore, spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Baddour family name include Beater, Beeter, Beatere, Betere, Batere, Bettere and many more.

Baddour Early History

Baddour Early History

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Baddour Early Notables (pre 1700)

Baddour Early Notables (pre 1700)

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The Great Migration

The Great Migration

For political, religious, and economic reasons, thousands of English families boarded ships for Ireland, the Canadas, the America colonies, and many of smaller tropical colonies in the hope of finding better lives abroad. Although the passage on the cramped, dank ships caused many to arrive in the New World diseased and starving, those families that survived the trip often went on to make valuable contributions to those new societies to which they arrived. Investigation of the origins of family names on the North American continent has revealed that early immigrants bearing the name Baddour or a variant listed above: Charles Bater who arrived in Virgina in 1642. Thomas Bater sailed to America in 1772.

The Baddour Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Baddour Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.